Graduate Teaching Assistants (trained PhD students or postdoc researchers who assist teaching), can obtain formal recognition of their university teacher status. Although a PhD degree confers ‘researcher’ status, it does not highlight your valuable experience of teaching at university. Obtaining Associate Fellowship of the HEA (AFHEA) (Advance HE) via the Imperial STAR Framework formally recognises your university teaching role. An AFHEA application involves your writing, reflectively, about your teaching activities: we will help you ‘reflect on your own teaching practice’ and write in the appropriate style. Although it is less than three pages in length, your application must be written in an education style instead of scientific style. You need to show fulfilment of some basic (but important) criteria. The Imperial STAR Framework teaches you the style and guides you through the application process. Imperial is enthusiastic about supporting its GTAs and we have supported many more than the national average to become AFHEAs in our first year of the STAR Framework.